Charles Louis Huguet de Semonville

Charles Louis Huguet de Semonville (9 March 1759-11 August 1839) was a French diplomat, politican, and nobleman during the First French Empire.

Biography
Charles Louis Huguet was born in Paris, France on 9 March 1759, the son of a royal secretary, and he served as Minister to the Republic of Genoa from 1790 to 1791; he unsuccessfully attempted to convince Sardinia-Piedmont to end its alliance with Austria during the French Revolutionary Wars. In 1799, he gained Napoleon Bonaparte's favor when he successfully strengthened the ties between the French Republic and the Batavian Republic of the Netherlands, and he also negotiated the marriage of Marie Louise of Parma to Napoleon. Ennobled under Napoleon as the Marquis de Semonville, he came to accept the Bourbon Restoration in 1815 and became Grand Referendaire de la Chambre des Pairs in the Chamber of Peers. He later became an opponent of the Ultra-Royalists, although he suported the monarchy during the 1830 July Revolution. He died in 1839.